999manman must be the vintage pickups and the nitrocellulose.

@@timg7942 Hahahah! No doubt!!!

It's because it was probably filmed with an Android rather than an iPhone.

Must have used matched Groove Tubes

and now after three years it sounds even better, as the video has nicely aged, we can undoubtedly call it "vintage"

Easy to separate me from my money...wasn't hard-earned at all!

Exactly

Me trying to djent on my acoustic

@@cardprophecy97 Y? Same

Eddie said he loved his 335. Didn't look cool

Thats why you do that to old strings

its actually a cheap trick to make bass strings sound new and bright again, it removes all the natural oils, sweat and gunk that have been collecting on your strings, only problen. they dont last half as long as new strings does and sound even worse after they die.

I did that too! Such crap!

I heard recently that Eddie deliberately told mistruths about what he did to achieve his sound. The specific item cited was whether he used a variac to provide more or less supply voltage to the amp. Apparently he told interviewers both at different times. To support that, apparently also Alex told Eddie early on to turn his back to he audience when he was using special playing techniques, so they wouldn't be learned by the other locals.

@@GrungeyMr I did it once and it did nothing more than waste electricity.

Lol.

No... it’s the spaghetti logo what really matters

you're correct, rosewood is a warmer tone and maple is a bright tone

To me the Maple sounds a lot better, fuller. I wish I was joking. Could I pick it out in a mix? No, but in a naked comparison like this, I highly prefer it.

What is more amazing is the tone was so similar coming from 2 completely different guitars .

I'd go even futher and say the speaker cabinet. Makes a huge difference.

Scale length too. The "fender sound" is as much the increased string tension from its 25 1/2" scale length as it is the single-coil pups

The speakers!

@@brunnoteixeira9400 Agreed. Anything on the amp, (preamp, speaker, cab...) Is more important than anythig on the guitar. Important meAns AUDIBLE. Most of the time, only the guitar player can hear a difference on a pickup change. Especially in a mix. And 99,9 % of the audience don't give a F*** about the whole debate 🤣

Get rock hard to play hard rock!

Outta control 😂

That's outstanding, sir.

Damn straight! Use it or lose it! Haha

Yep, and not to mention the vintage amps they were using.

@@pyroman6000 technically, wouldn't the "vintage" amps back then be new?

And everything was recorded to tape!!

@@bgm9517 there still is a big market for analog gear, so they didn't even get old yet.

shokid Thank you so much dude! Only know I realized that I always mixed up the order. That‘s why it never worked...

If you stir fry the picks, too, they will sound warmer.

Don't forget the Sriracha if you want a hotter pickup.

Remember to always grease your fretboard for those fat neck tones!

I usually like to add a little honey to the fretboard just before playing a really fast song. I think it helps with the bending, too.

looks fretless too

Yeah I love it too.

@@michaelmonopoli1004 bcs it is

A warm tone it will be!

That was really cool man 😁

José Palomino thank youuuuuuuuuuuu

Hero of the day

Soup is practical too because afterwards, you dont need a.. tooth-pick!!😂😂😂

Robs clean tone sounds like an angry bee though :(

Rob Chapman believes the tonewood myth, so i wouldnt really trust him on the matter, accomplished guitarist as he may be.

matthias umagat kind of scary how accurate he can be 😭

@@jacebeleren1703 cause he own a guitar company so that's obvious

Robert Baker You and me both.

Hahahaha Myth #16 Long silky hair enhances guitar skills and brings out the rebel in you Hahahahahahahahaha

If you enjoy these debates you don't have to think anyone's right. People like Phillip McKnight have tons of gear experience and he says a good inexpensive set of pickups isn't necessarily inferior to some expensive custom set, because the same basic correct materials are widely used.

@@j_freed Regardless of whether he is correct on that particular point, I don't consider Phillip McKnight an authority on guitar tone regardless of how much gear he owns. He did a video on attenuators and didn't even realise that the model of RockCrusher he owns has no cabinet emulation.

no. flames. flames make it faster. just like cars.

Thanks Rolland! Glad to help :)

nah nah man, to try and make it more marketable, youve got to say that the gold flakes add to the magnetic pull of the pickups on your strings and kills your sustain!

Combine it with active pickups with 18volt mod and see the flakes turn while you turn the volume knob!

Metallic flakes affect pickup tone..🎸😎😳

duh they add crunch! :P

I wanna hear that tbh

Checkout King Parrot. Grindcore on a hollowbody.

Ryuu MV what we should really be talking about is how much the color fo the guitar affects the tone. As you know the biggest difference in the world exists between a light red and dark red finish.

@@eriklundstrum4656 Yeah white ones sound better, and red ones are faster.

He said the tone is affected, just not enough to go crazy about it. Playability is #1 + decent pickups #2 should be the main focus. That plus a good amp. That's ALL we need to focus on..

@@BoltRM Let me put it this way: If you can hear the difference, you have an ear way better than the average human.

​@@Ryuu87 I doubt it's about having better ears, I think it's more been playing loads with both types of fretboards, hence why it's easy to hear the difference at once when the guitar is all on it's own, still not enough to pick one over the other just for the little difference in sound. Almost inclined to say no one will ever be able to point it out in a full mix, but there are probably some trained ears that can.

Of course you can, mime to a Hendrix recording!

Of course you can. If you want to sound like him for a single note length that is. But for a whole solo... You gotta do some Voodoo, Child.

I have a 7 string fanned fret thats awesome. therefore ..technically.. im better than Carlos .. who only plays a silly six string :D :D :D

I once played a C chord on a 12 string. Tommy Emmanuel said he's already busy with 6.

Tark, there's a LOT of us who also want that! Let us know if you're successful! Would be so much easier. Like trying to lose weight by watching the exercise videos.

i like your hummus

I like your memes

I like that you are everywhere

I like Ayourb content

How about no wood at all?

@@shapeshifter7676 check out a gittler guitar ;)

LordOfTheStrings Yeah those are crazy!

*me*:looks at my vintage Musima from plywood...

SPEAKERS matter most

#truth

@@ayylmao5121 I agree it's speakers, amp, pickups and lastly the guitar itself for the tone

Agreed this is often glossed over, however Darrell often mentions in his videos that a good amp is the great leveller. A good amp will make a reasonable guitar sound good. A crap amp will make a great guitar sound...well like crap 😉. His advice about more practice, less agonising over detailed mechanics/astaetics is great advice.

@@ayylmao5121 I'd say the cabinet is just as important as the speakers

Yikes!! Welcome to the club! 😁

Without a doubt; the mythology of the guitar world is bush league when compared to the absurdities of the audiophile realm. Ever heard of Shakti Stones? Egad...

Don't forget to get ceramic supports under your $10,000 cable, so that the signal flows better.

An electric guitar signal needs a quality cable that is shielded to eliminate noise. It is called Hi-Z because there is a lot of resistance to the small signal your pickups make. Your guitar will sound better thru your amp if your signal chain is designed to eliminate noise and interference. It's just a fact. Learning this changed my guitar playing world. It allowed me to find my tone and made people take notice. Yes better (shielded cable) makes a difference in your tone. Now try a matched triode tube (12ax7 with matched triodes) in the phase inverter socket of your amp. You will hear that loud speaker hiss go away and the feel of compression and attack and even order harmonics take it's place. Try it. For $20 its worth a shot. I know many players that live by it. I know I do.

I did notice a difference some years ago from upgrading my guitar leads and patch cables but that was a fair length of cable and it was going from super budget to decent cables. Once you get over a certain point you can spend all your money on oxygen free copper and gold plated connectors and it isn’t going to make a difference. I’d have said that it could be placebo but the big thing was less noise (shielding helps) and the fact that the good cables have lasted 10 years and the connectors have since broken on the cheap ones even with minimal use.

@@BlazonStone because some manufactures tend to put so much on it makes the guitar feel like plastic.

Poly is also a lot easyer to work with, plus it's not as unhealthy as nitro since it doesn't take years to fully cure.

@@BlazonStone It feels hard and plasticky. I like Nitro because it clouds up, flakes off, cracks and crazes.

It looks ugly

Also louder acousticly

I honestly never heard anyone say such nonsense in person.

I haven't even noticed.

Maybe because now the magnets lost their charge (or whatever it's called I don't remember) and treble goes down with it. So they can make pickups matching the old ones, but with the sound they have now instead of 60 years ago

I think the 'woodiness' of the sound output too as most electric guitars of that era, were all hollow, and as early pick ups were not potted they were quite microphonic so picked UP body resonance along with the string resonance.

I think people associate old music with warm tones in part because of vinyl too. People hear that old music was more "warm" and apply that to the tones of the instruments when that wasnt necessarily the case.

Yes, that too is a good point. ALL prev recording media imparted their own colour to the sound, acetate, wire, & tape all had their own slant and natural compression to the sound it accepted and played back! The reason digital recording sounds clearer but more harsh is it is completely NEUTRAL, and records and plays back EXACTLY what was put on to it! All the wave forms are turned into NUMBERS, the numbers play back exactly the same, on any player. Records and tapes being PHYSICAL media do not, as they have physical shapes of wave forms on them, and are physically played! THAT is they key difference!

EQ is tricky. Sometimes, more treble registers as fuller to the ears or brain. It's not straightforward.

I agree man.

What's that other pickup even for?

Led Zeppelin I. Mic drop!

@@arnolddealiii4259 i used to think he used an lp on that record, when i found out it was a tele I was blown away, bought a tele the next day

I concur...I've personally changed my strat bridge 3times searching for perfection.

Yup. Especially when you play a 5 or 6 string. They're a little more than $7!

Or it helps them to rust!! Metal + water + heat + salt from sweaty hands = disaster.

If you really want them clean use isopropanol.

@@pica6sedg Nickel and stainless steel don't rust.

Every time I swap strings (4 string epi t-bird pro bass) I boil my oldies and dry them. If I break a string (has happened this year) and can’t afford new ones/store is closed I pick up an oldie and bam, solid temporary fix

Robert Baker you 2 need to do something together on a video! Love to see that

@@paramediccpo Yes!

Sorry to say that on a good speaker,there is a bit of a difference in the maple vs rosewood. Maybe not enough to make much of a difference in tone, but it is there.

@@kalypso4133 I'll bet though you've never done a blind test. It would be interesting to try, but it's difficult unless you have what are basically two guitars the same but made from different woods. However, you might find it interesting to look up some of the blind guitar tests.

Where is KZfaq's laugh button? hahahaha

@@aliennomad3532 I have done a huge amount of blind tests xDD maybe you are just deaf?

@@kalypso4133 Let's talk science. Electric guitars work by magnets in the pick ups detecting and then voicing the vibration of the string above it. The material of the neck or fretboard has absolutely zero influence on the way the strings vibrate.

And string material... 8)

Yup, assuming he has the time to test another variable.

and 9% is the person playing it.

40% amp and speakers 40% pickups 20% a hundred other things I would say !!!

Snoopdave2000 I think we were discussing just the guitar signal. But if we discuss the entire delivered tone, I would agree that the amp could easily be 40%, and considerably more if it’s a modeling amp. But then we’d also have to consider pedals, which can completely transform the guitar even more than amps. I think it all comes down to the fingers though. I have a thousand dollar pedal board (just received a Headrush Eleven HD multieffects processor/pedalboard in my Premier Guitar Mystery Stocking), a top rated $250 modeling amp and several $400 - $500 guitars and there is zero chance of me producing any sound that anyone wants to hear. I can change them in a thousand combinations but none of them don’t suck. Yet someone like Darrell could take a $25 Salvation Army Hello Kitty guitar played through a $5 10W practice amp and make it sound great. It’s in the hands, heart and head, not the equipment.

Amazing return!!

You “rescued” that guitar like a serial killer picks up a hitchhiker - LMAO!

That guitar looks like a transformer lol

One of the best video of the year!!! All because of the Super Red Strat!!! :) Like they say: It's all in the wood!!!

hey Darrell, I was just looking at your Teespring page. I think you should market the guitar pick design that you have on the coffee cup. a 20 pack of picks? also, the system defaults to Aussie dollars when I'm looking at it... can't convince it that my currency is NZD.

I think the trick is.. it's the ear of the musician and how he adjusts his gear/electronics. Ive heard STRATS of all things playing metal with megacrunch. And teles. And ive seen some very twangy music played on lp's and rg's...

Rick Beato and Brett Schull did a video on string guages. They came to the conclusion that you should go with what feels comfortable to you. Exactly Darrell's point.

For real. And let’s be clear, you can get great tone on 8’s or 9’s, but you CAN NOT sound like SRV on them. It’s not a matter of good tone. It’s more a matter of specific tone.

@@stevenpippin6079 i dunno man. Not with stevie's exact rig, but if you switched some stuff i'd bet you'd get 60% of his tone. The rest was the player himself.

Strong gauge makes a difference on acoustic BUT the acoustic guitar has a bunch of different factors. Body wood does makes a difference too.

Spent a weekend switching through several string gauges - everything from 8s to 11s. Guess what, recorded on GarageBand, it still sounded like me playing, though I did have to work to control bends with 8s. No difference in tone at all. I stuck with 10s because that’s what was most comfortable to me. If you don’t sound like SRV, it has nothing to do with the fact that you’re not playing 13s.

@@dochort21 yeah, I definitely believe that string gauges don't actually change the tone, but I know that bigger strings are better for lower tunings, I play 10s in D Standard and it works just fine, sounds great and feels perfect!

effhole haha

Definitely organic…

@@malcolmwindust3888 Hopefully, at least

Try again on a clean tone

Actually yes. It depends. Boiling PLAIN guitar strings is really kind of moot and futile. But the wound strings were gunk residue resides in the wound cavities as all strings on bass are wound plays a role. And if you use Fender bass tuners you just put the strings back again without distorting or weaking the turns they have shaped form in. My take instead of boiling, is soaking them in isoprpopyl alcohol. For a while. The de-gunking of finger dirt and residue inside the wraps starts creeping out. But guitar strings are so cheap these days so it's a no brainer buying new strings.

Yeah I can go from really crappy tone to a completely new better tone just by boiling them

I agree. Boiling crusty wound strings makes them sound lively again. Not so for dead-sounding plain strings (sorry Eddie). For years as a cheap-ass, I'd just replace the three high strings and boil the wounds for 20 minutes. Now I can afford to buy full sets whenever I want.

totally agree! i did that several times on the E, A, and D strings from a set of peavey stainless. worked every time!

...dont boil strings. Please, for the love of all that is holy, just get new ones.

Teles sound so beautiful, honestly after watching his comparisons I've realised I'm not much of a strat fan. Teles will always be superior in my opinion :)

Ask Hendrix...

Well, it depends on your preference 😊

@@luigivonbootheven2854 Since when any legend player must be a reference for his tone ? Hendrix used mostly what he had available at the time. They hadn't have much options to choose from. I am pretty sure they aren't as picky as modern players are

A strat can't do tele but a tele can do strat so tele is always my go to

Axess2084 you should want to support American companies and help the American economy...

You want to pay the prices for me? I worked for decades in this 'American Economy'. I was forced to retire early from the business I owned due to a stroke. In a few years, I had used up the retirement money I saved up and am now on Social Security. I worked for decades of my life helping to build this 'American Economy' and now, I have to live on table scraps through no fault of my own. You want to pay $3000+ for a guitar, you go right ahead. I am not wealthy like YOU apparently are, lady. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Or is that a FORKED TONGUE in yours?

@@adriannasanchez468 if Axess2084 bought his budget priced import guitar and gear from a local pawns hop, or music store, he STILL supporting the American Economy. The store owner still gets the profits.

@@Axess-sv8nq Hi, "Axe". I fully understand your anger, because - like you, and many others who like to play the guitar - I had to save quite a long time to afford an instrument that is worth the money (it has to fill my needs, crap won't do that!). And my patience was worth it when I came across a beautiful Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 SE Dark Ebony showroom model that costed me just over 700 euros (800 USD) in stead of over 1200 at the time. Just saying: being short on money does not have to take away your dreams. I love this instrument and it could sound better with Seymour Duncans, but it will not look any better than this! Besides: who cares if I get home from a nasty day's work and play the hell out of it? Even more: a skilled guitarist - the one who realizes practising is important - can get good sound out of any (good) guitar. Videos like these teach us how to improve a good instrument and to separate junk from good stuff. I got this - American - instrument from a store in England. So, tell me: where does the money go to? Can we ever really tell?

Jeff Peccato - Well said, sir!

I am the kind of guy who believes everything matters, but when the impact is lesser than 3%, you shouldn't bother and leave that to optimization, that is focus on it when and only when everything else that do matter is sorted and already up there. This includes most other myths here mentioned. Besides, food for thought: why invest in a noise-free power generation when half you pedals are dedicated to induce noise into your sound? I think the ear should be the ultimate judge, not the brain. Fun fact: I changed the pick guard on my cheap Ibanez, removed the cheap plastic one and put one made of mahogany plywood. That did make a huge difference and was totally worth it; it got rid of a cheap plastic-like resonance it had when playing unplugged. The amplified improvement, still, might be lesser than 10%; that is unnoticeable to untrained ear, which is the most of my public. This said, music is a matter of feeling above anything. Whatever makes you feel better and improve your "playmanship" is totally worth it, even if the net gain is objectively negligible. I know to me what makes me feel the "most better" when playing my instrument: it is practice. When I get to practice a lot, I become more and more akin to my instrument, and whatever I do - be it playing music or just setting up my tone - is drastically improved.

@@EddieOtool for me it was hum. And theres something youre all forgetting. Every electronic device you own transmits random radio waves.. energy.. which your other electronics pick up. Thus why EVERY electronic device you own has a sticker saying it complies with the maximum that device is allowed to put ou

Power supplies don't feed your circuitry. Power supplies feed capacitors that feed your circuitry. If designed properly they function as low pass filter so that no high frequency pass into the audio pathway. If not designed properly result is static coloured noise.